A House divided – what now for the budget?

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With the Minister of Finance having delivered the Budget Speech last week and various political parties indicating that they will not support the budget, the

What Rasool said: insights into the ANC mind?

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Ebrahim Rasool, the former South African Ambassador to the US whom the Trump administration kicked out of the country over the weekend, has been thrown

Trevor Noah: was integration a bad idea?

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South African expatriate comedian Trevor Noah set the internet on fire in a recent podcast when he questioned whether “integration was the right move”. “That

ANC’s intellectual impotence threatens us all

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President Ramaphosa has displayed little of his much-vaunted negotiation skills in his dealings with American President Donald Trump. Ramaphosa has been very poor at reading

Who pays for the ANC’s failures? 

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South Africa’s latest budget debate has exposed a fault line which has existed for decades—one that separates those who seek pragmatic solutions from those who

The Wilgenhof settlement: what disturbs me about it

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Dear Editor I was initially relieved to learn that Stellenbosch University, and the institution’s oldest residence, Wilgenhof, (and its esteemed alumni association) had resolved the

The fusing of politics and tech

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There is something inevitable about the Trump/Musk duopoly currently wreaking havoc on previously solid global and domestic political pillars. Depending on where you sit on

Read the Budget: it’s your money

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“South Africa could come to a standstill,” I wrote in August last year, after the Appropriation Bill was passed by Parliament. Not until days before

How Woke activism destroyed UCT’s Professor Bongani Mayosi

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This month marks a decade since the advent of Fallism and Woke activism at the University of Cape Town. Amid the turmoil and destruction, one

How “South Africans” do it

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I’m pleased I can write this; a few days ago, I couldn’t. The power was out. It went on Wednesday evening and just stayed off.